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Hello!
I cannot believe it has already been a whole week! Time goes by SO
fast! It's unreal. This week was pretty grand though. Thanks for
sending me my iPod and the Salt and vinegar chips! I have been craving those! We have been listening to a lot of Christmas
music! We have to enjoy it while we can;)
On Monday we went and played tennis after emailing. It was pretty
fun! I'm not good, but it was still fun. We had dinner at a members
home. They are awesome! They are hilarious.
Tuesday was... Not so great. Not a lot happened that day. It just prepared us for Wednesday!:)
Wednesday was pretty swell! We had district meeting and Elder Johnson gave the lesson. After we went to the Memmotts for dinner.
Brother Memmott is our ward mission leader. They are an awesome
family! It's was so nice to eat home cooked food again! I mean, we
have home cooked food as well... only it's in the form of a Cup of
Noodle, or eggs. <-- My favorite! :/. We had B.o.M. Class that night
as well. Elder Johnson plays the violin, so the ward has definitely
used his talent with that. He's very good, and while I was
teaching the B.o.M. class he was practicing with some members of the
ward. It was hard to teach by myself. It's definitely helpful to have
Elder Johnson there, so that we can have different ideas flowing, and
well as a different voice. It went pretty well though! We read Alma 51, and we just
take the chapter a couple versus at a time and discuss what each of us
learn.
Thursday was really fun! We had exchanges that day! Elder
Martin (DL) came to our area with me, and Elder Johnson went to their
area (Greensburgh) with Elder Little. It was really fun and stressful!
Since Elder Martin wasn't familiar with our area, i literally had to do
everything. Now i know how Elder Johnson felt while he was training
me. It's so hard to do missionary work, with someone who doesn't know
the area or people. He can talk really really well with others, but as
far as getting revelation on who to teach. Well it was up to me.
Thankfully we had a full day planned. I saw this pregnant lady walking up the street. I can talk to
anyone about anything, unless it's gospel related... So i was super nervous, but i decided we would go talk to her. She actually turned
out to be awesome! We bore our testimonies and all that. She really
seemed to like it! Ahh, i felt so energized after that. After we went and saw this lady. We talked to her, and she has a child who has a lot
of health problems. A blessing saved his life, as well as her
grandmothers. So she has such a testimony of the gospel! She just
can't make it out to church! AHH it's so sad, because she loves church
so much. We are working with her though and continuing to encourage and
commit her to come. After we went back to the
house and ate dinner. Elder Martin is a really funny guy, and we just
talked about
random things.
Friday we switched back to our old companions. It was really
really fun to be with someone else for a while, but i really missed
Elder Johnson. He is so good at leading us. It's really hard doing
everything by yourself, and we have also learned how to work and teach
together to be most effective. I really took for granted some of the
things that he is able to do, and it was nice to see how much harder it
was without his gifts. So it definitely made me way more appreciative
of him! This day was weird. The spirit was there, but it just felt
weird. We've been teaching a man, and realized that he hasn't prayed to know
if the Book of Mormon is true! He said he isn't going to until he's
read the whole thing. We had dinner at
Sister Knights house That was really fun!
Saturday one of our investigators texted us back and wanted to meet with us!
We were sooooo happy! The spirit was so strong. We
read D&C121 with her. When we left, it was snowing outside! we
were so happy, because i have been praying for snow every day! I love
when it snows, and so it just made the day that much better!
Sunday We had church! Church is awesome! It's the best
part of the week! After church we went and had lunch with the Bohrer family. They are so
good at cooking! We met with them, and had a lesson to help them find
someone to have in there home that we could teach. We later met with another family and
had a lesson to seek more referrals. Sunday's are the best!
I love being a missionary. It isn't always super fun, and easy,
but it is always rewarding. No matter what we do, as long as we put our
trust in the lord and do what we can! This work is incredible, and it
is definitely picking up! It's not picking up on the missionary side.
It's the member side. The key to the work hastening is the members.
They can reach out to people and introduce them to the gospel that we
never could. Once they've got the person interested, that's where we
come in and we teach with the members. It's amazing the fire this ward
has! They love helping us out to complete this wonderful work.
LOVE YA!
Elder Birrell
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